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The Benefits of Music for Young Children
Young children just love music and often it is through music that young children communicate for the first time, whether it be through gesture, smiling or action.
But is there more to it than that?
There is a growing amount of evidence to show that music enhances a childs ability to think, learn, reason and create and it is in the first five years of a child’s life that all of the formative brain development and connections are being formed. Music brain researcher, Dr Gordon Shaw describes music as “a window into higher brain Function”.
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The Impact of Music in Our Schools
“You are supposed to go to choir rehearsal.”
These words were uttered from the mouth of my third grade teacher Ms. Kratz way back in 1981. A few weeks prior, my music teacher, Mr. Snouffer, pulled me into the tiny, dingy backstage area of our little cafeteria stage at Whitehall Elementary School in Williamstown, New Jersey. He asked if I knew the words to Barry Manilow’s, “I Made it Through the Rain.” I said yes, and he asked me to sing it. I have no idea how in 3rd grade I knew the words to that song. Let’s just say that from a very young age I knew I was not like the other kids. Apparently, Mr. Snouffer saw a spark in me when I sang in music class, and he was checking to see if I could make it in the chorus. He decided I could and let Ms. Kratz deliver the message. He did not know the impact that this simple gesture would have on my life.
Right around this time my dad took off and my mom had to find the humility and courage to accept government assistance in order to keep our home. In addition, I had begun to painfully hear my name called early in the morning every Monday to pick up my “free lunch” ticket for the week. This was humiliating at first, and eventually just became reality. To top it all off, while my brothers were excelling in academics and athletics, I was falling behind in Math. This led to me having a tutor outside of school. Actually, though, I would still be falling behind in Math if you asked me to compute anything beyond basic Algebra.
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